Spain deployed a massive police contingent and set up special viewing spots across rural areas that offered the best views of the spectacle.

Leavitt, 28, the youngest ever US presidential top spokesperson, has been a fiercely loyal Trump defender

Closed aircraft window shades. A ballcap pulled low to hide the president's face. Seized cellphones. These are all hallmarks of secret trips made by US presidents

Colombia's president declared an economic emergency and vowed the country would rebuild after a massive earthquake

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he hoped more countries would join a defence agreement signed last week between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan aimed at stabilising a region wracked by conflict.

India’s foreign ministry said peace along its disputed border with China is critical to ties between the Asian neighbours, amid reports of renewed military tensions between the two countries’ troops in a remote corner of the Himalayas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that Russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize Russian merchant vessels and the commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet said his forces were ready to “inspect and detain” foreign vessels.

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country’s extraordinary economic rise, died yesterday at the age of 97.

Colombia on Wednesday declared three days of mourning for victims of an earthquake that demolished buildings in the west of the country, killing more than 200 people.

Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by U.N. Women on Wednesday.

Areas of Europe home to more than 135 million people -- particularly in France, Italy, Spain and the UK -- were set for temperatures over 35C yesterday as the continent’s latest heatwave intensifies, according to AFP calculations.

Okuda took the reins of the struggling firm in 1995 as the first person from outside the founding family in decades, and pushed innovative products such as the RAV4 and Prius.

Pakistan's interior minister is visiting Iran to discuss regional security, stability and other developments, the foreign office said on Wednesday.

Four crew members killed in suspected Houthi attack on cargo vessel, sources say

In Pereira and Cali, families slept in parks as aftershocks rattled damaged neighborhoods where entire blocks had been reduced to rubble.

The US president covertly exited the presidential plane while it was on the ground in Turkey on July 8.

US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan is still operative and discussions with Israel are continuing, a Board of Peace official said on Monday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an Israeli withdrawal until the Palestinian group Hamas is “genuinely disarmed.”

Indonesia is stepping up efforts to contain forest and land fires across six priority provinces, deploying cloud-seeding aircraft to induce rain as it works to slow the haze now spreading across the region, officials said.

The Myanmar military has escalated its aerial attacks against civilians, with the conflict ravaging the country showing no signs of abating, UN investigators said yesterday.

A Syrian court yesterday sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest during the country’s nearly 14-year war.